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Contents<br />
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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HISTORIC HAVENS<br />
Maggie Alderson finds some<br />
Grade II listed dream homes<br />
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122<br />
SCULPTURE CULTURE<br />
We celebrate the joy of<br />
three dimensional artwork<br />
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54<br />
SUMMER’S EMBERS<br />
Jo Arnell stretches out the<br />
summer in the garden<br />
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NOTEBOOK<br />
This month’s top six<br />
events not to miss<br />
PICTURE PERFECT<br />
A Victorian masterpiece is<br />
revived with fantastic style<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
The products you need to<br />
imitate the picture perfect look<br />
BURNER LOVE<br />
Cosy up by the glow of<br />
our woodburner picks<br />
THE MOTHER OF<br />
REINVENTION<br />
Quirky artist, Sassy Luke,<br />
shows us her fabuous<br />
treasure trove of a flat<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Steal the Sassy Luke look<br />
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STYLE IT UP<br />
Kate Watts styles men’s fashion<br />
THE HAIR AND NOW<br />
Josephine Fairley finds<br />
the products your hair<br />
has been missing<br />
A YEAR OF WELLNESS<br />
eminé rushton examines<br />
spinal wellbeing<br />
NATURAL WISDOM<br />
Expert wellness advice,<br />
smart packaging and a hair<br />
treatment recommendation<br />
THE TREES OF LIFE<br />
Outdoor yoga, massage<br />
and women’s health<br />
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE<br />
Easy recipes to keep<br />
students thriving<br />
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SWEDISH SUMMER<br />
Sue Whigham finds garden inspiration<br />
on her annual trip to Sweden<br />
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Garage, Master Bedroom with Ensuite Bathroom, Further Double<br />
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Parking for Several Vehicles, Well Established South Facing Garden,<br />
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Icklesham O.I.R.O £675,0000<br />
A modern rebuilt character thatched 3-bedroom cottage, with<br />
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Entrance Porch, Entrance Hall/Utility, Living Room, Kitchen/Dining<br />
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Around Private Garden, Garden Store Shed, Garage, Off Street<br />
Parking, Stunning Rural Views of Brede Valley, Quiet Location, EPC: D<br />
Rye Harbour Guide Price £675,000<br />
A former pair of Victorian cottages now arranged as a three storey<br />
6 bedroom detached house with versatile accommodation, with<br />
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Udimore Guide Price £550,000<br />
A well set back detached 4 bedroom chalet bungalow offering<br />
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Dining Room, Sun Room, Ground Floor Master Bedroom with Ensuite<br />
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Dining Room, Two Further First Floor Double Bedrooms with Ensuite<br />
Shower/WC, Attached Garage, Wrap Around Private Garden approx.<br />
½ acre, External Laundry Room and Potting Shed, Off Street Parking,<br />
Stunning Rural Views of Brede Valley, Additional attached 1 acre<br />
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Udimore, East Sussex - £825,000<br />
A beautifully refurbished four bedroom brick barn with<br />
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Rye, East Sussex - £465,000<br />
Lovely refurbished Grade II Listed period house of C15th<br />
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A delightful, traditionally detached 18c farmhouse. Set in approx<br />
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attached outbuildings. Total accommodation area approx 90m 2 .<br />
Furnished, well decorated, ready for occupation as a permanent<br />
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source. The tiled roof is in good condition. Almost all wood<br />
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Location and history of the region<br />
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Guide £1,150,000<br />
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(3 en-suite). EPC Rating C<br />
Egerton<br />
Guide £1,025,000<br />
A carefully restored 16th Century period<br />
farmhouse in a glorious location commanding<br />
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1.02 acres. EPC Rating NA<br />
Pluckley<br />
Guide £1,295,000<br />
An attractive 5 bedroom period farmhouse and 2<br />
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A stunning modern country house about<br />
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4 bedroom first floor apartment (over 2,500sq ft)<br />
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Hensill House<br />
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Setting: Glorious <strong>Wealden</strong><br />
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Beds: 7, the master en suite with a<br />
dressing room Baths: 3<br />
Special features: The interior needs<br />
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Pleasing details: Swimming pool,<br />
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Gate House Farm<br />
£1,250,000<br />
The dream: Did a house ever have a<br />
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Where: Near the village of Staplecross, 3<br />
miles from Bodiam.<br />
Setting: An elevated spot with views over<br />
the High Weald AONB.<br />
Beds: 6, Master en suite Baths: 4<br />
Special features: The pool house is a<br />
beamed Sussex barn that was moved to<br />
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Pleasing details: A billiard room and a<br />
self-contained one-storey cottage.<br />
Outside: 3 acres of gardens and grounds,<br />
including a west-facing walled garden,<br />
outbuildings galore, two green-houses, a<br />
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Time to town: 6 miles to Robertsbridge,<br />
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Old Cloth Hall<br />
£1,975,000<br />
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Setting: In the High Weald AONB,<br />
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Beds: 6 Master en suite, with a dressing<br />
room Baths: 3<br />
Special features: Heavenly oak panelling<br />
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Pleasing details: A substantial<br />
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Outside: Mature gardens with a pool and<br />
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Time to town: 5.5 miles to Staplehurst,<br />
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Exhibitions<br />
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this month<br />
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From Sunday 23 <strong>September</strong> to<br />
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Editor’s<br />
Letter<br />
We laugh a lot, putting together every issue of this<br />
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eyes well up with big fat tears.<br />
That happens every time I look at the picture of Ava (page 7<br />
of this month’s <strong>Education</strong> <strong>supplement</strong>) looking so brave and so<br />
smart in her uniform on her very first day at school.<br />
All parents have vivid memories of sending their little ones<br />
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remember our own first day. It’s a big deal for all concerned,<br />
which is why we have an article full of great advice about<br />
preparing your child – and yourself! – for it.<br />
But with my daughter about to embark on her first postschool<br />
stage of education I know all too well that the concern<br />
to do everything right to support your child never goes away,<br />
so we have covered all the stages of schooling right up to uni<br />
applications and the new alternatives to that path.<br />
We also have two spectacular and very different houses,<br />
inspiring gardens, delicious food and expert beauty and wellbeing<br />
advice. And I’m particularly pleased this month with our fashion<br />
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Enjoy your <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong>!<br />
<strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Team<br />
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Previous pages: The wallpaper in the drawing room is by De<br />
Gournay. The rocking horse is from Stevenson Brothers Above<br />
left: Potato the dog in the hall with vaulted ceilings in the Gothic<br />
Revival style Above right: The parquet floors are by Avalon<br />
Flooring Left: The chest of drawers is from Ensor Interior Design<br />
One of the wonderful things about East Sussex is<br />
that as soon as you think you know the place, you<br />
will quickly realise that you don’t know it at all.<br />
Nestled at the bottom of that lane, the one you drive<br />
past every day, hidden behind the blush of those giant<br />
purple rhododendrons and the splash of lush dark<br />
evergreens lies a house. And then you marvel at how<br />
you managed to miss something quite so stunning!<br />
It is a house just like this that drew businesswoman and<br />
mother of three, Lillie Edgar and her husband, former<br />
banker and now landscape designer Chris, to the pictureperfect<br />
rural coastline between Hastings and Rye.<br />
Fairlight is a village of contradictions. Emerging at the<br />
top of Battery Hill by the Firehills country park, it rolls<br />
downwards towards the sea and just like Winchelsea and<br />
Pett, two of its neighbouring villages, there is an almost<br />
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Top: Ornate heirloom chandeliers draw the eye to the ceilings in the sitting room<br />
Above: Indian miniatures by Lillie’s mother and Southeast Asian shadow puppets<br />
reflect Chris and Lillie’s love of travel<br />
schizophrenic nature to the place.<br />
Whilst the main village itself lies at the<br />
bottom of the hill, dominated by mainly<br />
post-World War II bungalows and a few<br />
new-builds, further up the hill is a collection<br />
of glorious houses hidden behind verdant<br />
ever-greens and large gates, each one unique<br />
and each very much in its own vernacular.<br />
Chris and Lillie bought their former rectory<br />
in 2010. Having moved from Tunbridge<br />
Wells, the idea was to get the work done<br />
and to move in within a few months. Little<br />
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would actually take several years and become<br />
a labour of love, as the couple began work<br />
on everything from the roof downwards.<br />
Nestled at the end of a leafy drive, with<br />
views over the rolling coastline down to Rye<br />
bay, the early Victorian building had been<br />
in dire need of love and attention for some<br />
time. The dreamy stucco ceilings had been<br />
boarded up, the intricate cornices had <br />
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Previous page: The world map is from Printed Space and the<br />
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Left: The teak four poster is from Lombok Below: Chris<br />
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Previous page: The Venetian glass chandelier in the<br />
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Previous page: Sassy seafront home is a dreamy paradise of rescued, saved and upcycled treasures Above: The stunning sea views from<br />
Sassy’s wrought iron balcony are a constant source of inspiration and a contrast to her gloriously quirky style <strong>inside</strong><br />
Sassy Luke cites her two big interior loves as “the<br />
ridiculous and the sublime”. That’s her approach to the<br />
wonderfully idiosyncratic paintings, etchings, icons,<br />
greetings cards and cushions she makes. But it’s also true of her<br />
home. The Georgian flat overlooking the sea on St Leonards<br />
Marina is a veritable cornucopia of rescued objects, family<br />
heirlooms, upcycled treasures and Sassy’s original artworks.<br />
As soon as you enter the eye is drawn to a magnificent<br />
collection of vintage hats, coats and handbags on one<br />
side and beautiful Moorish pottery plates hanging on<br />
the walls on the other side. Sassy lived in Spain when<br />
she was younger and fell in love with both the Moorish<br />
architecture and ceramics. But it also reveals the wonderfully<br />
informal and fun way Sassy entertains at home.<br />
“I don’t have a dinner service. If I have people<br />
over I just take these down off the wall and<br />
use them. That’s what the Spanish do.”<br />
The sea, whether here or in Spain, has always been<br />
an inspiration for Sassy who grew up in Cornwall in a<br />
house with no television. To entertain her, she was read<br />
endless stories by her father. She cites this bohemian<br />
childhood as the starting point when her imagination<br />
leapt into gear. And gosh what an imagination she has.<br />
The stunning azure sea views from the ornate wrought<br />
iron balcony adjoining her sitting room are overshadowed by<br />
the sheer fabulousness and individuality of the furnishings.<br />
And the fact that it’s simply overflowing with the type of<br />
interesting ‘stuff’ only a true interiors magpie could discover.<br />
Dominating the area by the window is a large sofa/<br />
day bed covered with pastel throws and richly ornate <br />
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This page: An ornate French mirror is surrounded by some of Sassy’s artistic creations – pieces of religious iconography with playful<br />
twists of flowers, shells, crystals and lights, all in her signature pale colour scheme of white, pink and blue<br />
deep red and gold velvet cushions. Next to it is an ‘altar’<br />
table covered in flowers and surrounded by a collection<br />
of fun LED rabbit lights. It’s bonkers but it works.<br />
On the wall hangs a large French mirror. Surrounding<br />
that are some of Sassy’s artistic creations - boxed<br />
religious icons decorated with all manner of delicate<br />
flowers, shells, crystals and pretty lights.<br />
She explains, “I’m not particularly religious but I’ve always<br />
been transfixed by religious iconography. I wanted to put<br />
a modern and thought provoking twist on the images.”<br />
Sassy is also at pains to point out she doesn’t think her icons<br />
are in any way disrespectful. “It’s not my intention to demean<br />
the original. I wouldn’t do that. My aim is only to enhance or<br />
put a twist on them. But I do like to shake up the conscience.”<br />
A piece on the opposite wall, called Censored, containing<br />
an image of Christ emblazoned with the word ‘censored’<br />
in an old clock case sums up her approach further.<br />
“Sometimes I see items that are crying out to be<br />
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The case is from a reproduction clock I found in a<br />
junk shop. I liked the classical look of the case, but it<br />
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Underneath that piece is another of Sassy’s icons, a beautiful<br />
Virgin Mary decorated with delicate shells. To the side sits<br />
a lovely antique solid chest of drawers, which belonged<br />
to her grandmother. The surface is crammed with family<br />
photographs in different styles of vintage frames, and a<br />
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Above: The French day bed is sourced from long-time St<br />
Leonards dealer, Eamon and is topped with bolsters which<br />
Sassy made herself with fabric remnants, bits of old duvet,<br />
vintage ribbons and sequin belts Right: An antique chest of<br />
drawers holds a series of family heirlooms and photographs<br />
“I love him but he has an evil stare,” laughs<br />
Sassy. There are also some stunning antique blue<br />
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heirlooms. But even on these antique pieces, Sassy<br />
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the blue lamp-base with glittery gold butterflies.<br />
Next to the chest sits a heavy French wrought iron<br />
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something is beautiful than comfortable. I suspect I<br />
think differently to a lot of other people,” laughs Sassy.<br />
On top of the bed sit embroidered bolsters that look<br />
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by Sassy from fabric remnants stuffed with bits of<br />
old duvet and the ends tied with vintage ribbons.<br />
The ‘embroidery’ that tricked my eye into thinking<br />
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with glue. “I’m both a poor artist and a single<br />
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to think outside the box in everything I do.”<br />
On the wall are some of Sassy’s collage paintings,<br />
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This page: Sassy saves space by displaying beautiful items<br />
which are usually stowed away; bags are hung on door<br />
handles and jewellery is set out on a Georgian writing desk<br />
waste.” There’s some more of her icon works, this time<br />
embellished crucifixes in soft pink and blues with sparkly<br />
silver and gold detail – Sassy’s favourite palette. Sassy has<br />
the crosses made by a local carpenter and then paints and<br />
embellishes them to make each one a unique piece of art.<br />
A turquoise Casa Pupo lamp sits on a little table,<br />
again upcycled, this one with glittery long-tailed birds.<br />
Even the door handle is made decorative with vintage<br />
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There’s so much going on in this room it’s hard<br />
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Aphrodite is the theme of the mantlepiece with a<br />
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Top left: Inspired by life in Spain, Sassy has no dinner<br />
service, but simply takes her decorated plates from the wall<br />
when entertaining Above: An abstract painted cello case by<br />
Jameson Keane Bottom left: Sassy’s painting, Homunculus<br />
was inspired by the book Geek Love by Katherine Dunn<br />
have to throw them away because they wouldn’t fit in.”<br />
As an example, she points to a collection of blue<br />
feathers in place of flowers. “They have some yellow<br />
bits on them,” explains Sassy, “but I had to turn<br />
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The little galley kitchen off the sitting room sings with<br />
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love of the whimsical and pretty in those favourite blues<br />
and pinks is apparent with ceramic roses hanging from<br />
wall hooks, carved alabaster eggs and a vintage bird cage.<br />
In the hallway is a striking piece of art by artist Jameson<br />
Keane, in the form of a bright abstract painted cello<br />
case. Opposite that is a mirror framed by more of Sassy’s<br />
jewellery and a very intriguing painting of hers named<br />
Homunculus featuring circus characters <strong>inside</strong> glass<br />
bottles, inspired by the book Geek Love by Katherine<br />
Dunn. Next to that sits a portrait of the artist herself.<br />
The main bedroom was shared by two daughters <br />
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This page: In what was Sassy’s daughters’ bedroom, she is<br />
currently working on her icon tin collection, a series of sardine<br />
tins glamourised with studs, shells and spikes. Above the bed<br />
hangs Bubble-gum-queenie, Sassy’s twist on Chris Levine’s<br />
Lightness of Being portrait of the Queen<br />
but with them both off to university, Sassy has moved her<br />
work desk in there. On top of a vintage bed sit some of<br />
Sassy’s own design humorous cushions (which she sells at<br />
Brighton market and other craft fairs around East Sussex).<br />
Her work desk is a haven of order. She’s currently working<br />
on a series of miniature icons made from old sardine tins.<br />
The humble tins have become little things of beauty in her<br />
expert hands studded with pearls, shells and/or punky spikes.<br />
“It’s called the icon tin collection,” says Sassy before roaring<br />
with laughter and renaming it ‘the starving artist collection’.<br />
“I feed my kids then I make art with the leftovers!”<br />
Sassy’s own bedroom is smaller. As elsewhere the lack of<br />
storage means she’s had to make a virtue of displays and her<br />
collections of vintage dresses, shoes and belts line the walls.<br />
It’s hard to imagine that this flat full of intrigue,<br />
wonder and joy was painted dark brown and green when<br />
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colours that make me happiest. Then I love letting my<br />
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This page: In Sassy’s own smaller bedroom collections of vintage<br />
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Works from Louise Giblin - winner of the Gold Award for Sculpture at the 2017 Florence Biennale<br />
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Edward Stott, Washing Day, 1899, Oil on canvas. Watts Gallery Trust<br />
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‘Precious Thing’ Eve Shepherd<br />
‘iLondon’ Louise Giblin<br />
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The world as a picture - Li Mang solo exhibition<br />
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Specialising in original works and signed limited<br />
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an extensive collection sure to enchant and<br />
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gallery’s walls, alongside pieces from critically<br />
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MEET THE ARTIST ALEX ECHO<br />
International abstract artist Alex Echo will<br />
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Kurt Hickson ‘Red, White and Blue’ (2016-2017) © The Artist<br />
David Batchelor<br />
‘Pink Pimp Mix’<br />
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‘New Stones -<br />
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Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne<br />
Home to an internationally renowned collection of around<br />
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‘Ladies Waiting Room’ 1995<br />
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‘The Wall’ Kurt Hickson<br />
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Photography by Red Saunders<br />
Jordan Baseman ‘Based on Actual<br />
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This led me to thinking about how much innovation there<br />
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the pleasure factor.<br />
Dry shampoos, for instance, which have been such a<br />
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The human skeleton evolved to spend days wandering over the land<br />
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carrying her handbag all day (the average<br />
handbag weighs between two to three<br />
kilograms) to hanging a dumbbell from<br />
one’s shoulder for hours on end.<br />
“This causes the obliques on the<br />
opposite side to work harder to pull the<br />
body back and the imbalance between<br />
the two sides can leave you with a spin<br />
or pelvis tilt, on one side.”<br />
Likewise, sitting cross-legged.<br />
“This causes the pelvis to tilt to one<br />
side, causing<br />
a shortening of the lower<br />
back muscles on one side too.<br />
We stretch the gluten and<br />
abductors on the leg that is<br />
brought across and squash<br />
the leg underneath. A wonky<br />
pelvis will follow,” says Grant.<br />
It’s also important to realise<br />
that an entirely seated day<br />
will not be cancelled out by a burst<br />
of activity in the form of fitness class<br />
before or after work. It’s incidental,<br />
natural, cumulative movement that<br />
benefits our bodies most of all.<br />
You may want to take a look at<br />
some natural movement websites and<br />
the book The Four pillar plan by Dr<br />
Rangan Chatterjee, who champions the<br />
importance of squatting, crawling, and<br />
floor living, whereby we spend more<br />
time eating, socialising and relaxing at<br />
ground level and less time seated on<br />
sofas and at desks and tables. As our<br />
hunter gatherer forebears lived.<br />
A regular yoga or pilates practice will<br />
also help to highlight those muscles<br />
that are over- or underworked and<br />
both work wonders at relieving tension,<br />
strain and tightness. Do, always, look<br />
for a teacher who is experienced and<br />
knows how to guide without being<br />
forceful; and never, ever push yourself<br />
to do anything that feels uncomfortable<br />
– whether on the mat, or at your desk.<br />
Pain is our body’s best guardian, an<br />
immediate signal to stop or slow down<br />
- and by responding early, we ensure<br />
that today’s little pain will not escalate<br />
into tomorrow’s big problem.<br />
Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at psychologies magazine, and co-founder of<br />
the conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk<br />
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Wellbeing<br />
Natural wisdom<br />
pip Lawrence, the founder of Maidstone-based personal training<br />
company, Day One Wellness, shares her feel good favourites<br />
What one piece of wellbeing<br />
wisdom helps you most?<br />
I love active commuting – whether<br />
you park your car a little further away,<br />
walk or jump on your bike, getting<br />
more morning daylight exposure,<br />
combined with more movement will<br />
help you to be more productive in<br />
the day and sleep better at night.<br />
What one self-care ritual do you<br />
never skimp on? Journalling. Every<br />
morning I write down three things<br />
that I’m grateful for, then my VIP:<br />
Vision for my life, Intention for today,<br />
Progress from yesterday. It helps me<br />
stay focused on the important things<br />
rather than getting overwhelmed.<br />
What’s cooking in your kitchen this<br />
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Share one book that taught you<br />
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The power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.<br />
I’m a stereotypical Type A personality.<br />
I’m always chasing the next goal and<br />
filling my calendar to bursting point.<br />
This book made me realise that if I rush<br />
through life only chasing goals I’ll miss<br />
out on the amazing experiences those<br />
goals are facilitating.<br />
What always brings a smile to your<br />
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What is the best treatment<br />
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There’s been a real shift in beauty packaging of late – and<br />
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tiny vials of serum within twelve outer sleeves of plastic<br />
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where it comes from, and<br />
what happens to it once<br />
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The trees<br />
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The crunch of bark underfoot, the streams<br />
of light through the leaves, the rich smell<br />
of the earth… there’s nothing quite like a<br />
walk in the woods.<br />
And medical science agrees. An<br />
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The Japanese are so convinced about<br />
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It’s all about you<br />
With breast checks, pelvic floor problems and all the complications periods<br />
and menopause can throw at us, as Tammy Wynette once sang ‘sometimes it’s<br />
hard to be a woman…’<br />
With everything there is to fit in to daily life – and all those other people to<br />
look after – it’s all too easy to keep pushing those nagging little health concerns<br />
down the to do list, rather than have them checked out with expert advice. So<br />
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It’s time to put yourself first.<br />
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For most of us a massage is an occasional<br />
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The key thing is to have them regularly.<br />
The Massage Company is a brilliant<br />
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University<br />
challenge<br />
Forget the academic pressure – feeding<br />
themselves can be a daunting prospect<br />
for new undergrads. Here are some<br />
quick, easy and cheap ideas<br />
Recipes & styling: Nicci Gurr of Home Gurr’own<br />
Photographs: David Merewether
Chicken and lentil<br />
masala<br />
Serves 4<br />
You don’t need to spend precious funds going out for curry, they<br />
are very easy to make from scratch, without a huge spice rack<br />
• 8 chicken thighs<br />
• 1 tin of drained black<br />
urid beans (also called<br />
urid dal or black lentils)<br />
• 1 tin red kidney beans<br />
• rapeseed oil<br />
• 1 tbsp garam masala<br />
• 1½ tbsp curry powder<br />
• ½ tsp sea salt, or a pinch<br />
of table salt<br />
• 2 tbsp grated fresh ginger<br />
• 3 cloves grated garlic<br />
• 2 red onions<br />
• 1 tbsp tomato purée<br />
• 6 fresh tomatoes roughly<br />
chopped (or 1 tin of<br />
chopped tomatoes)<br />
• ½ small bunch coriander<br />
- finely chopped,<br />
including stalks. Save<br />
some leaves for garnish.<br />
• 50ml double cream<br />
1In a large saucepan, heat<br />
the rapeseed oil and add<br />
the onions, garlic, ginger,<br />
garam masala, salt and<br />
curry powder and cook on a<br />
medium heat until the onions<br />
have softened. Add the beans<br />
and cook for a few minutes so<br />
that the beans can soak up the<br />
flavour from the spices.<br />
2Chop the chicken thighs<br />
into cubes and throw it<br />
in with the beans and spices.<br />
Fry this until the chicken is<br />
lightly browned. Next add<br />
the tomatoes and tomato<br />
purée and cook for about<br />
15 minutes on a medium<br />
heat. Then add the chopped<br />
coriander.<br />
3To finish, add the double<br />
cream and garnish with<br />
extra coriander and chilli to<br />
taste.<br />
Easy courgette,<br />
cauliflower and blue<br />
cheese crumble<br />
Serves 2 – 4<br />
Crumbles aren’t just for pudding. A tasty way to get your five-aday,<br />
with all the comfort of melted cheese and a crunchy topping.<br />
• 6 small spring onions<br />
cut into rounds<br />
• 1 medium cauliflower<br />
cut into florets<br />
• 2 large courgettes cut<br />
into slices<br />
• 100g button mushrooms<br />
cut into quarters<br />
• 300g kale<br />
• 2 tbsp rapeseed oil<br />
• chopped parsley<br />
• salt & pepper<br />
• 2 cloves garlic crushed<br />
• 1 teaspoon thyme<br />
• 100g blue cheese,<br />
crumbled<br />
Crumble top<br />
• 120g wholemeal bread<br />
flour<br />
• 30g butter (or vegan<br />
cream cheese also works<br />
well)<br />
• 20g rolled oats<br />
1Put the prepared<br />
vegetables, garlic and<br />
thyme in a casserole dish or<br />
deep(ish) tray and mix with<br />
the rapeseed oil.<br />
2Place in a pre-heated<br />
oven (180c/gas 4) for 25<br />
minutes until juicy. Drain<br />
the juice from the vegetables<br />
into a bowl and reserve.<br />
3Put the crumble<br />
ingredients in a bowl<br />
and rub through with<br />
your fingers until you get<br />
a dry sandy crumble-like<br />
consistency. Season with<br />
salt and pepper and add the<br />
crumbled blue cheese.<br />
the crumble<br />
4Scatter mix over the roasted<br />
vegetables and bake in the<br />
oven for 15 minutes or until<br />
golden-brown on top. Scatter<br />
with parsley and serve.<br />
<br />
Written by Grace Walpole – Head chef for Home Gurr’own<br />
Home Gurr’own has been catering for weddings and events since 2006. Based in Cranbrook, they operate within a 40 mile radius<br />
across Kent and East Sussex. They offer good honest local food either grown on their own smallholding or sourced from the local<br />
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Easy pizza<br />
Serves 2-4<br />
Dodge the supermarket stodge and impress friends with an<br />
Italian street feast. That is if you feel like sharing...<br />
• 3 pork or beef sausages<br />
from a good butcher<br />
or 100g chorizo sausage<br />
balls (or see Quick Pizza<br />
Meat recipe below)<br />
• 2 (250g) x mozzarella balls<br />
Tomato Sauce<br />
• ½ (200g) tin of chopped<br />
tomatoes<br />
• handful fresh chopped<br />
basil or 1 tsp dried<br />
• 1 clove of garlic smashed<br />
and chopped<br />
Pizza base<br />
• 300g bread flour (we<br />
recommend a mix of<br />
½ brown and ½ white<br />
flour but white’s fine on<br />
its own)<br />
• 1 tsp instant yeast<br />
• 1 tbsp rapeseed oil<br />
• 200ml warm water<br />
• salt and pepper to taste<br />
1Mix all ingredients for the<br />
Quick Pizza Meat Recipe<br />
in a bowl. Wrap in clingfilm<br />
and leave in fridge overnight<br />
to develop. Before use roll into<br />
balls about 2cm across and<br />
cook as below.<br />
2Place the sausages in<br />
an oven at 180c for 20<br />
minutes (this is also a good<br />
way to use up any leftover<br />
cold sausages if they haven’t<br />
already been pinched from the<br />
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3Put the flour into a large<br />
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and salt. Make a well, pour in<br />
warm water and rapeseed oil<br />
and bring together with a knife<br />
or your hands until you have<br />
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lightly oiled surface and knead<br />
for 5 mins until smooth. Cover<br />
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4Fry the basil and chopped<br />
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Kale, Whipped Feta and Dukkha Wraps<br />
Serves 2<br />
Filled with fresh flavours and textures, the humble wrap gets an<br />
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• jalapenos or chilli sauce<br />
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• 200g Greek yoghurt<br />
• zest of one lemon<br />
• black pepper<br />
Dukkha<br />
• 100g sesame seeds<br />
• 100g toasted hazelnuts<br />
• 100g sunflower seeds<br />
• 2 tbsp coriander seeds<br />
• 2 tbsp cumin seeds<br />
• 2 tsp black pepper<br />
• 1 tsp fennel seeds<br />
• 1 tsp sea salt<br />
• rapeseed oil<br />
1Heat the oven to 180c/<br />
gas 4. Mix all the dukkha<br />
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2Make the whipped<br />
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and whisk) until combined.<br />
3Warm the tortilla wraps<br />
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minute, then assemble: start<br />
by spreading a good layer of<br />
whipped feta all over the wrap<br />
and sprinkle an even layer<br />
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5Fold each wrap upwards<br />
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tucking the sides in to ensure<br />
that the filling doesn’t fall out.<br />
Tip<br />
The Dukkah and Whipped<br />
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crudités or strips of toasted<br />
pitta bread.<br />
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Summer’s embers<br />
Jo Arnell finds plenty to look forward to as the season turns<br />
From where I’m sitting on the parched and dusty plains<br />
of this summer, I have to tell you that I am pinning all<br />
my hopes on <strong>September</strong>. I’m hoping that <strong>September</strong><br />
will be the new July, my second chance in the garden. The<br />
borders could be as packed with interest and colour as they<br />
were back then – in theory.<br />
The days are shortening by the minute (two minutes<br />
each day to be precise), there’s a poignancy in every sunny<br />
afternoon and the cooler dusks and dawns are dew drenched<br />
and cobwebby. But who knows? We might not get a frost<br />
for months yet. Let’s seize these golden days and enjoy the<br />
jewel-box dazzle of dahlias and rich-hued daisies, the soft<br />
light touch of grasses and airy annuals. With luck – and a few<br />
tweaks and plant additions – we can keep the summer going<br />
for several more weeks.<br />
Late bloomers<br />
Rudbeckias, Echinaceas, Asters and Heleniums are at their<br />
best this month. The range of colours is good. Some are<br />
autumnal – shades of dusky pink, mellow oranges, rust and<br />
mahogany, but there are also bright splashes of blue, mauve<br />
and pink from asters.<br />
Plants in the Compositae (daisy) family are packed full of<br />
nectar, so will attract butterflies and bees. Some have long<br />
lasting seed-heads too; once the flowers have finished they<br />
persist as silhouettes, looking artistically sculptural. Their<br />
hollow stems make cosy over-wintering homes for ladybirds<br />
and other beneficial insects too, so don’t be in too much of a<br />
rush to cut them back at the end of the season.<br />
The flowers of Sedum spectabile are also a magnet for<br />
butterflies and bees. They are a great addition to the front<br />
of the border and will provide long-lasting colour right<br />
through the autumn too, as the nectar-filled flowers fade into<br />
attractive seed heads in shades of russet and bronze. Sedums<br />
are easy to care for and will grow in most soils, but given a<br />
choice they’d prefer sunshine and free draining conditions.<br />
Annuals<br />
You can’t beat annuals for long season flowering. This is down<br />
to their short, but action-packed lives. They only have one<br />
season in which to grow, flower and set their seed. If you<br />
can thwart them in their life’s purpose by continually dead<br />
heading, they will keep trucking along, flowering until the<br />
frosts. You’ve got to admire their persistence, but you’ve also<br />
got to be persistent yourself - the minute you stop picking<br />
they will have crossed the finish line, achieved their purpose<br />
and will not flower again. Floriferous and reliable annuals<br />
include Cosmos, Antirrhinum, Cleome and Zinnia for sun,<br />
and Nicotiana, Mimulus and Impatiens for the shadier parts<br />
of the garden.<br />
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Nigella seed head Teasel seed head Amni Majus seed head<br />
Tender and short-lived perennials<br />
Dahlias are good value and their large and repeat-flowering<br />
blooms make them ideal as cut flowers too. There are lots to<br />
choose from - please don’t feel you have to stick to the garish<br />
end of the colour range. There are sultry, dark beauties like<br />
‘Arabian Night’ and demure whites, peachy-creams and pale<br />
petalled pinks. The flower shapes vary too, ranging from small<br />
pompoms through to giant spidery cactus types. Dead head<br />
them regularly to keep the flowers coming and then, once<br />
the frost has cut them back, either lift and store the tender<br />
tubers somewhere frost free for the winter, or (and I did this<br />
successfully last winter) take a gamble and leave them in situ,<br />
under a warm duvet of straw and mulch. What they don’t<br />
like (and let’s face it who does?) is prolonged wet and cold<br />
conditions. This eventually rots the tubers, so keep them<br />
dryish and unfrozen.<br />
Umbelliferous plants (those in the carrot family) are elegant<br />
additions to border schemes. Many are light and airy, some<br />
have graceful ferny foliage, all have wonderful flat-headed<br />
corymbs of flowers that are wildly attractive to beneficial<br />
insects and pollinators. The other good news is that after<br />
they have flowered, their seed heads look just as magical.<br />
Many will self-seed prolifically too and save you the trouble<br />
of growing new plants. They can be annuals, biennials or<br />
short-lived perennials. I’m not sure I’d recommend Cow<br />
parsley for the garden, beloved as it is at flower shows; it looks<br />
delicate and dreamy, but it’s a thug in a lacy outfit, taking<br />
over like the weed it really is and self-seeding everywhere. Try<br />
the tamer Anthriscus ‘Raven’s wing’, Ammi majus, or bronze<br />
fennel for similar effects and sturdy seed heads.<br />
I can’t go on much further without mentioning one of the<br />
most ubiquitous, but best loved and constant companions<br />
in my garden: Verbena bonariensis. I do take it for granted<br />
and it is occasionally irritating (as the best of friends can<br />
be), but this is mainly down to its enthusiastic self-seeding<br />
habit. It is always forgiven, because it flowers non-stop<br />
from June until the frosts, its tall, luminous mauve flowers<br />
attracting butterflies, bees and even blue tits along the way.<br />
Grow somewhere open and free-draining and it will quickly<br />
proliferate.<br />
Super grasses<br />
Many of the ornamental grasses will be flowering around now,<br />
sending up shimmering golden, silver or russety flower spikes.<br />
Some are demure and ‘grassy’, others show off with dramatic<br />
plumes. There are tall grasses that will do the job of a shrub<br />
in the border, bringing instant height and presence, but in a<br />
more graceful and airy way than a blobby bush. Miscanthus<br />
zebrinus, or M. ‘Silberfeder’ are good shrub substitute grasses.<br />
Calamagrostis ‘Carl Foerster’ makes a tall golden pillar and<br />
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Mop head<br />
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Swedish<br />
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From lichen to beavers, Sue Whigham is<br />
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grus) heading off together who knows where. They<br />
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behind them, their feet looking like ragged flags.<br />
At the end of March each year twenty thousand or so of<br />
these cranes arrive at Lake Hornborga in the province of<br />
Vastergotland, West Sweden, from Spain where they have been<br />
overwintering. The lake is a resting place on their journey<br />
up to their breeding grounds in the north of the country.<br />
Here they conduct their courting dances which attract so<br />
many people to the area. It seems that there is also a tiny<br />
population of these particular cranes on the Norfolk Broads.<br />
Beaver inhabit the area too, but as they are mainly<br />
nocturnal we saw signs of their handiwork but no more than<br />
that. Beavers had been hunted to extinction in Sweden by<br />
the end of the 19th century, primarily for their pelts, but<br />
were successfully re-introduced from Norway in the 1920’s.<br />
They have even been spotted in and around Stockholm.<br />
We saw black water snakes in the shallows on the edge of the<br />
lake; funnel web spiders (no, not the Aussie kind) with giant<br />
webs spread over low growing shrubs on the side of the track,<br />
fritillary butterflies feasting on knapweed and the odd elk and<br />
small herds of deer grazing on the edge of the forest at dusk.<br />
I wonder if we would have fritillaries in number in<br />
this country if our councils desisted from cutting the<br />
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Fritillary<br />
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Phacelia tanacetifolia<br />
Tachona gross’s imposter bumblebee<br />
verges mid-June, taking with them the later flowering<br />
knapweeds as well as our wild flowers just as they are in<br />
their prime. Plantlife is one of the charities campaigning<br />
for a reduction in verge cutting. Let’s hope they have<br />
some success, especially as we continue to lose so much<br />
habitat to big building projects here in the South East.<br />
On our annual pilgrimage to a wonderful plant nursery<br />
we thought we had had a coup as a bed of eryngiums<br />
in flower were host to myriad insects including what<br />
seemed to be a black bumblebee. What excitement<br />
when we looked it up and it seemed very similar to the<br />
short-haired bumblebee, fairly recently re-introduced to<br />
the UK at a successful project based at Dungeness.<br />
We sent a photograph to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust<br />
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came right back to us and imagine our chagrin when the email<br />
said, to quote, ‘I’m sorry to say that this isn’t a short-haired<br />
bumblebee, but is in fact a fly!’ This imposter was a giant<br />
black hairy fly with some unfortunate habits! In fact a Large<br />
Tachinid fly (Tachina grossa). Oh well, we live and learn.<br />
Everybody with a garden in Sweden grows copious<br />
amounts of dill (Anethum graveolens) as it is an<br />
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Inspiring Teachers,<br />
Inspiring Children<br />
4 AND BACK THEY<br />
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Hilary Wilce on<br />
supporting kids as<br />
they return to school<br />
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BACKS<br />
The best of backpacks<br />
7 FIRST STEPS<br />
School, day one<br />
10 THE RIGHT FOOT<br />
School shoes<br />
13 A TESTING TIME<br />
A headmaster tells us<br />
why an 11+ pass isn’t<br />
everything<br />
15 OUTSIDE THE<br />
BOX<br />
Learning outside the<br />
classroom<br />
19 MULTIPLE<br />
CHOICE<br />
A breakdown of the<br />
options after GCSEs<br />
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4<br />
20 LUNCH BUNCH<br />
Lunch boxes<br />
22 ROOM TO GROW<br />
Kids’ bedroom picks<br />
25 APPY DAYS<br />
Decoding social media<br />
27 TAKE NOTE<br />
Smart notebooks<br />
29 MAKE IT ADD UP<br />
How do we take away<br />
the terror in Maths?<br />
32 ON THE CASE<br />
Pencil cases<br />
35 THE LONG VIEW<br />
Start thinking about<br />
university early<br />
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advises how to support your children as they start a new school year<br />
The start of the school<br />
year is always a big deal<br />
for a child, and not only<br />
when they are starting at a new<br />
school, or moving up to the<br />
next stage of education. Every<br />
new school year brings a raft of<br />
new things – friends, subjects,<br />
teachers and classrooms.<br />
So how can you, as a parent,<br />
help your child make the most<br />
of this next year in their school<br />
journey? Of course, so much<br />
depends on how old they are.<br />
Helping a pre-schooler taking<br />
their first step through the school<br />
gate is entirely different from<br />
supporting your teenage son<br />
or daughter as they embark on<br />
their sixth form or college years.<br />
Bur some things are universal.<br />
It’s always important, for<br />
example, to keep any worries<br />
to yourself and encourage your<br />
child to see school as something<br />
of real value, to be fully lived<br />
and enjoyed. Put the emphasis<br />
on learning, rather than on<br />
doing well in tests and grades<br />
and encourage your child<br />
to work hard and join in.<br />
Keep a weather eye out for<br />
serious problems and try to<br />
tackle them in partnership<br />
with the school if they should<br />
arise, but be very careful not<br />
to make a mountain out of<br />
every molehill. There are<br />
inevitably many bumps as a<br />
child travels through school.<br />
Above all, remember it’s your<br />
child’s school life, not yours,<br />
and don’t force your dreams<br />
and goals on them. Whenever<br />
there is a disappointment, take<br />
a step back and look at how<br />
your child is feeling about<br />
things, not how you are.<br />
The early years<br />
Prepare your pre-schooler for the big<br />
step up to school by making sure<br />
they can do all the practical basics.<br />
Teachers complain bitterly about new<br />
arrivals who can’t use cutlery, put on<br />
their shoes or – almost unbelievably<br />
– aren’t even toilet trained.<br />
Also make sure they understand the<br />
basics of how to have a conversation<br />
(it involves both talking and listening!)<br />
and make sure they’ve visited, or at<br />
least driven past, their new school.<br />
As they start school ensure pick-up<br />
routines are clear to your child and<br />
punctual. The sobs of tired children<br />
whose parents or carers haven’t turned<br />
up on time are a pitiful sound. And<br />
also make sure your after-school<br />
routines are homely and quiet. This<br />
isn’t the time for a frantic round of<br />
activities or drawn-out playdates.<br />
As children move on through school,<br />
they will develop a growing awareness<br />
of both academic expectations and<br />
social complexities. Reassure your<br />
child that although you expect them<br />
to work hard and do their best, you<br />
don’t expect them to come home<br />
with full marks in every test.<br />
Children’s lives are increasingly<br />
blighted by exams and classroom<br />
competition, so make sure you aren’t<br />
ramping up the same pressure at home.<br />
And help them steer their way<br />
through the social jungle by<br />
encouraging them to be kind and<br />
thoughtful, but also to always be<br />
themselves. Help them see that<br />
sometimes other children have<br />
problems which can make them mean<br />
or aggressive, but that most quarrels<br />
blow over, and that it’s perfectly normal<br />
for friendships to flower and fade.<br />
Primary-age children also need you<br />
to think about how best to regulate the<br />
pace of their lives. How much screen<br />
time is sensible during this school year?<br />
How many out-of-school activities do<br />
they need? The answers to these kinds<br />
of questions vary every year, but the<br />
important thing is that you are the one<br />
in control, and not giving in to things<br />
you feel aren’t helping your child have<br />
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This starts at either eleven or<br />
thirteen, depending what kind of<br />
school system your child is in, and<br />
is a massive step up and out into the<br />
wider world. But, as always, there are<br />
critical practical things to get right.<br />
Make sure your child has the right<br />
uniform and kit (embarrassment<br />
is a huge part of being a pre-teen)<br />
and that they know how to navigate<br />
any new school journey they need<br />
to take. Talk through lots of ‘what<br />
ifs’ with them. What will they do<br />
if they lose their bus pass, feel ill in<br />
school, or forget their games kit?<br />
If possible, foster links with other<br />
students starting at the same school,<br />
so your child has some social contacts<br />
- and know who to contact at school<br />
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Outside school hours, make sure<br />
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Your family rules may well turn<br />
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of these school years and stick<br />
to what you believe is right.<br />
As they embark on secondary<br />
school life, be sure to keep chatting<br />
with them about things like taking<br />
responsibility for themselves, about<br />
not bullying or allowing themselves<br />
to be bullied, about following rules<br />
(or not), and about the pressures<br />
on teens to be cool and popular.<br />
Encourage your child to solve their<br />
own problems, but also let them<br />
know you are completely behind<br />
them and will help them deal with<br />
any real difficulty they run into.<br />
And as the first crucial exam years<br />
roll around, work hard to encourage<br />
your child to feel positive and<br />
determined to do their best, while<br />
also keeping any family anxiety<br />
and tension to a minimum.<br />
You will need to walk a tight<br />
balance between motivating your<br />
child and keeping them calm, but<br />
it’s vital young people know that<br />
exams are arbitrary things invented<br />
by grown-ups, that there are always<br />
second chances, and that life is<br />
much bigger than a fluffed GCSE.<br />
This isn’t being lax and laissez<br />
faire – a wound-up and overwrought<br />
exam candidate will never be able<br />
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put the emphasis on learning,<br />
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5<br />
The FINal years<br />
Your child has made it through GCSE<br />
and is embarking on sixth form or college.<br />
They are not, in fact, your child any<br />
more at all. They feel quite grown up<br />
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Help your child prepare for a different<br />
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encourage them to get going as they mean<br />
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Unfortunately they are also often the<br />
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Holly Newton, Reception teacher<br />
Preparing your child to start school<br />
is about more than achievements<br />
and abilities - it’s about getting them<br />
emotionally ready to learn. Sending a<br />
positive, independent and happy child<br />
to school should always be your aim.<br />
Skills your child should have<br />
before starting reception<br />
By helping them to master a few skills in<br />
advance, you can boost their confidence<br />
for those early weeks.<br />
Independence<br />
Know how to look after, share and<br />
tidy toys.<br />
Go to the toilet, wash their hands<br />
and blow their nose without support.<br />
Eat with a knife and fork.<br />
Remain composed in front of your<br />
child. This can be an incredibly<br />
emotional time for you both, but<br />
try to be relaxed, encouraging and<br />
reassuring. If they see that you are<br />
upset when they go into school,<br />
they will feel anxious and confused.<br />
Remember that children rarely cry<br />
for long once their parent has gone.<br />
However, if your child is terribly<br />
upset on consecutive days, talk<br />
through strategies with the teacher.<br />
Label everything - even<br />
underwear, socks and shoes.<br />
Self-care<br />
Basic dressing skills, such as putting on<br />
and taking off jumpers and buttoning<br />
and unbuttoning coats. Be able to<br />
put on socks and shoes. (Help your<br />
child to put them on the right foot by<br />
drawing half a smiley face <strong>inside</strong> the<br />
left shoe and half <strong>inside</strong> the right.)<br />
Listening, attention and curiosity<br />
Be able to listen carefully for short<br />
periods of time and follow instructions.<br />
Feel comfortable asking questions and<br />
trying new activities.<br />
Basic learning skills<br />
Know how to grip a pencil correctly.<br />
Be familiar with different rhymes and<br />
games – these will form<br />
a foundation for developing numeracy<br />
and literacy skills.<br />
“As parents, it is normal to feel anxious<br />
or emotional, especially at the start”<br />
How can parents prepare themselves?<br />
Position these labels clearly<br />
and make sure your child<br />
knows where they are.<br />
Help with left and right shoes<br />
by drawing half a smiley face<br />
in one and half in the other.<br />
Try not to overload their<br />
time after school with clubs and<br />
playdates. Children are often<br />
exhausted at the end of the day,<br />
especially during the first term.<br />
Be prepared for a few tears<br />
in the evenings and have a<br />
good bedtime routine.<br />
Claremont<br />
parent: Tricia<br />
I began preparing Ava (above)<br />
for the start of school about 18<br />
months in advance. We moved her<br />
to the nursery at Claremont School<br />
to allow her time to get to know<br />
the school, teachers and staff.<br />
The school arranged many<br />
afternoons of meeting the<br />
Reception staff and spending time<br />
in the classroom. This helped get<br />
Ava excited about moving into the<br />
“big” school, especially since so<br />
many of her friends from nursery<br />
were going to be in her class.<br />
It took Ava a few weeks to settle<br />
in, until we discovered the main<br />
problem was lunchtime. The hall<br />
is very busy during lunch and<br />
Ava found this unsettling. Her<br />
teacher sat next to her for a few<br />
weeks - till she felt more confident<br />
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Try to eliminate as many of the anxiety-causing ‘unknowns’<br />
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provide useful pictures to chat about in spare moments.<br />
Find out contact details for Parents Reps as they will<br />
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It is important to know that the staff are there to help<br />
your child in any eventuality, just as a parent would.<br />
It is important that children feel emotionally secure at<br />
school. Give your child the language to talk about their<br />
feelings. If they do have a worry, perhaps about feeling<br />
poorly at school or having a toilet accident, it is worth<br />
rehearsing a few phrases to use. We would always practise<br />
this in school, too. Your child can also bring a comforter<br />
or a special photograph to class, as these provide a personal<br />
reminder of home.<br />
Dulwich parent: Kirsty<br />
Oliver spent a little bit of time at the school<br />
the year before he started, as he and I<br />
attended the weekly toddlers’ group. It was a<br />
great way for us to get to know Nash House<br />
and for Oliver to make some friends.<br />
Before the start of term, there was a school open<br />
evening at which we got to meet Oliver’s future<br />
teachers and the other parents. At the end of the<br />
summer, the school held a ‘move up’ afternoon,<br />
where Oliver spent time in the classroom with his<br />
teachers and classmates. This meant that when<br />
he officially started in <strong>September</strong> he knew where<br />
to go and had some idea of what to expect.<br />
Oliver settled in almost immediately. By the<br />
second week he was running through the doors<br />
in the morning, desperate to get into class. All<br />
the staff really took the time to get to know him,<br />
taking note of his likes and interests and made<br />
the classroom warm and inviting for him.<br />
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A testing time<br />
It’s 11+ season and parents and pupils<br />
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but take heart, a pass is not the only<br />
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Mr Bill Jones<br />
Headmaster, Spring Grove School<br />
Around this time every year thousands<br />
of children across Kent in Year 6 sit<br />
the Kent 11-Plus, competing for a Aplace at one of the 33 grammar schools the<br />
county has to offer. Some pupils will succeed, while others<br />
will not – but what should always follow, whatever the<br />
outcome, is encouragement and opportunity, never failure.<br />
The 11-Plus is a ‘big deal’ and many have an opinion<br />
about it, good or bad, but that said, it is here to stay, so<br />
what is the best way to prepare your child and yourself?<br />
First of all it’s essential to take stock and decide if taking<br />
the test is the right choice for your child. Do they enjoy<br />
problem-solving, do they like puzzles, do they love to read<br />
and write, do they love a challenge, does maths come easily<br />
to them? If so, perhaps the Kent Test is right for them.<br />
If not, perhaps their talents and intelligence lie in<br />
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follow. Please remember, schools, like children, are unique<br />
and not every school will be right for every child.<br />
It is about what is right for your child as an individual<br />
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identifying the correct approach and whether or not you wish<br />
your child to sit the exams. At Spring Grove this individual,<br />
differentiated, approach is something we pride ourselves upon.<br />
For those who have taken the decision that the 11+ is<br />
the right path, many parents will use private one-to-one<br />
tuition, sample papers, revision timetables and the like,<br />
but I personally do not believe in this rigid approach.<br />
The tunnelling of a child’s focus and ambition to a<br />
one-off test can be counter-productive, affecting a child’s<br />
confidence and turning them away from learning at such<br />
an important developmental stage. Confidence and a<br />
passion for learning, once lost, can be hard to reignite.<br />
At our school, in every lesson and activity, we take a<br />
holistic approach, tailored to the individual. We keep learning<br />
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We apply no barriers to a child’s talent and development<br />
and because of this our children are confident and make<br />
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“The tunnelling of a child’s focus<br />
and ambition to a one-off test<br />
can be counter-productive”<br />
We work with families to find the best path for their child<br />
and we have even had instances where twins have gone on<br />
to different schools because they had different interests.<br />
We believe that the enrichment in the children’s<br />
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their particular kind of intelligence does not match<br />
what the grammar schools are looking for.<br />
As a great example of this I would like to share an email<br />
I received from an ex-Spring Grove School parent last year.<br />
Dear Mr Jones<br />
Whilst flicking through Facebook this morning, I see<br />
lots of good luck wishes to all who are taking their<br />
11+ today. Six years ago our daughter sat the 11+ and<br />
unfortunately – but not surprisingly to us – she didn’t<br />
pass so grammar school was out of the question.<br />
Finding a suitable school for her that we could<br />
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So the point of this email? To thank you for the<br />
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The most important part is choosing a school that<br />
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I do hope that those pupils who may be<br />
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To echo my former parent’s words, options and<br />
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Dr David Perkins, Head of History<br />
At school – as a result of seeing an item on TV – I decided<br />
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Playing in my county youth orchestra, when I was a child,<br />
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was necessarily available at my school and the experiences<br />
I enjoyed, which included playing in youth festivals on the<br />
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Young people claim to feel less social<br />
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One of the reasons children get put off maths young<br />
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The teacher is also vitally important. From my experience,<br />
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It’s really important to challenge a child’s perception that<br />
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rely on their arithmetic skills alone.<br />
For some pupils this extra work will<br />
drop into place quickly, but for others,<br />
learning about how numbers work is<br />
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between routines that work sometimes<br />
and routines that work all the time,<br />
they will begin to excel. If not, they<br />
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What is really helpful is to dispel the<br />
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The ‘maths’ of Monopoly is a<br />
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As a Year 7 and 8 Maths teacher,<br />
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The long view<br />
You can’t start too early thinking ahead for higher education – and it should be fun<br />
Hannah Linklater<br />
Head of Higher <strong>Education</strong>, Hurst College<br />
For a prospective applicant who is aiming to gain<br />
a place at the best universities, a love of learning<br />
and abundant motivation to study their chosen<br />
subject is vital. Universities are looking for students<br />
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Start them young<br />
Parents can encourage their child to be excited about their<br />
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suffragettes revealed a fascination with history and politics?<br />
Are they enthralled by science experiments and desperate<br />
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Parents can also help by looking out for television or<br />
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podcasts that may apply to their child’s interests. Days<br />
out to museums, exhibitions, plays, historical sites, and<br />
so on can be incredibly inspiring and formative.<br />
Research the options<br />
The UCAS website is extremely comprehensive and provides a<br />
huge amount of advice for parents and students. There are also<br />
a number of books available to help, such as The <strong>Times</strong> Good<br />
University Guide, the Getting Into… course guides and The<br />
UCAS Guide to getting into University and College. University<br />
websites and prospectuses are free and contain a plethora<br />
of invaluable information about courses and institutions.<br />
University gives students the opportunity to<br />
pursue their intellectual interests in great depth and<br />
the range of degrees on offer now is extraordinary.<br />
There are over 160 higher education institutions in<br />
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Undertaking some research into their future options at a<br />
relatively early age can be wonderfully motivating for students.<br />
If your child has taken a keen interest in programming,<br />
why not have a look at what a computer science degree<br />
involves? This may inspire them to create their own website<br />
or app, learn new coding languages, attend a summer course<br />
and read books and newspaper articles on computing.<br />
If they’re obsessed with animals and nature, you could<br />
spend time researching degrees in zoology, environmental<br />
studies or animal science. A young historian may<br />
pursue a history degree, or specialise by opting for<br />
war studies, history of art or medieval studies.<br />
As their interests develop and their perspective<br />
broadens, they may consider a subject completely outside<br />
of the school curriculum, such as event management,<br />
film production, journalism, robotics, criminology, or<br />
anthropology. If they have a passion for something, it’s<br />
worth searching the excellent UCAS search tool for<br />
courses in that area (https://digital.ucas.com/search).<br />
More than grades<br />
To achieve a place at the best universities, students need<br />
to demonstrate that they have gone above and beyond the<br />
academic essentials in pursuit of their genuine passion.<br />
There are numerous Year 12 essay competitions run by<br />
universities. The experience of entering these often proves<br />
invaluable to applicants. Another way for students to<br />
stretch themselves is to complete online courses through<br />
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) or iTunes U.<br />
Some universities offer taster courses to let students<br />
experience life at a university before they apply. These<br />
can be a fantastic opportunity for students to gain a<br />
greater insight into university study and social life, and<br />
“Less obvious activities, such as<br />
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Universities are keen to recruit students who will contribute<br />
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student politics, student newspapers or volunteering with a<br />
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up at senior school will demonstrate they have much to offer<br />
alongside their academic work. This is why in their UCAS<br />
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Sometimes extra-curricular activities can be unrelated to<br />
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Less obvious activities, such as juggling a part-time job with<br />
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Hands-on experience<br />
For some vocational university courses, such as medicine,<br />
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Through such placements, they will be able to build up<br />
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and clarity about motivation are also crucial.<br />
There are a number of conservatoires in the UK offering<br />
performance-based courses in music, dance, drama and<br />
musical theatre at undergraduate level. Once again UCAS has<br />
a great deal of information: www.ucas.com/ucas/conservatoires/<br />
getting-started/thinking-about-performing-arts<br />
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Do it now<br />
The best way to save your family from<br />
traumatic decisions when you reach the<br />
last stages of life is to put the right legal<br />
protections in place now says Edward<br />
Walter of Buss Murton<br />
It is a topic which never seems to be much out of<br />
the news – end of life care decisions; who makes<br />
them, and on what basis. There are a number of legal<br />
documents which occupy similar but not identical spaces.<br />
A Lasting Power of Attorney (“LPA”) for Health &<br />
Welfare decisions allows a person to give someone<br />
else the authority to make healthcare and personal<br />
welfare decisions if there comes a time when the<br />
Donor themself cannot make the decision, because<br />
he or she won’t understand the concepts involved<br />
sufficiently to make an informed decision.<br />
Under a Health & Welfare LPA, Attorneys can<br />
make decisions about the Donor’s care, daily routine,<br />
medication, medical treatment and living arrangements.<br />
The Donor is also able to give or refuse permission<br />
to the Attorney or Attorneys to make decisions<br />
about life saving treatment i.e whether it should<br />
be provided or whether it should not be.<br />
“Do Not Resuscitate” Orders are a creature of the<br />
National Health Service and they need to be given whilst<br />
the Donor has informed consent. They provide that,<br />
in the event that the individual’s heart stops beating,<br />
it is not to be re-started. So, it deals with a limited<br />
number of instances – i.e potentially fatal cessation of<br />
lung function and/or heart functionality. A Do Not<br />
Resuscitate Order will not necessarily assist where a<br />
person is suffering from another terminal condition.<br />
An Advance Directive, again, needs to be given well<br />
in advance of there being any question of a mental<br />
capacity concern. An Advance Directive is a document<br />
which should empower you, the Donor, to give future<br />
directions as to how you would like to be treated.<br />
You can discuss how you would like to be<br />
cared for and can explain your positive wishes<br />
and also dictate the circumstances where you<br />
would not want certain decisions to be made.<br />
It may include information such as where you would<br />
wish to be cared for, what your dietary requirements<br />
might be, what your religious or other beliefs or systems<br />
might be and may include who you would want to be<br />
consulted regarding your care. This will also include<br />
who you would and would not like to visit you.<br />
It is important to understand what sort of decisions<br />
can be specified in an Advance Directive or indeed<br />
in the note section of a Health & Welfare LPA. At<br />
present, the range extends from Advance Directives<br />
stipulating that ‘maximum steps are taken to preserve<br />
life’ no matter that ultimately, death is to be expected<br />
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The recent Supreme Court ruling that<br />
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vegetative state when the family and physicians<br />
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different from the situation which is likely to<br />
be faced by many persons at the end of life.<br />
The reason it is different is because the person in<br />
that case, was in a persistent vegetative state. Most<br />
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have mental capacity to make a decision, are<br />
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In many other cases, it may be that the family<br />
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which case there should be no difficulty with the<br />
steps which are to be taken. In the Supreme Court<br />
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The NHS Trust in question asked for a ruling<br />
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be made before judges, particularly where there<br />
is agreement between family and physicians.<br />
But, to guard against the position that you find<br />
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that doctors and family do not agree, it is in the<br />
interest of self-autonomy to have either an Advance<br />
Directive or, to have a Health & Welfare LPA.<br />
So, any adult over the age of 18 who has mental<br />
capacity, should consider making an ‘ordinary’<br />
Will to deal with their financial assets and other<br />
matters commonly covered by a Will – but they<br />
should also have a Finance & Property LPA<br />
dealing with their financial and property affairs<br />
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Sunday 4 November <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Take a ride behind a real steam<br />
engine, shake hands with the<br />
Fat Controller, join in themed<br />
activities in the Imagination<br />
Station and even meet Thomas<br />
himself. Don’t forget to pre-book<br />
for the Fat Controller’s Tea Party<br />
train; it’s the last departure of<br />
the day so tickets - and cake - are<br />
limited. Pre-book for reduced<br />
price fares.<br />
spavalleyrailway.co.uk<br />
FESTIVALS & SHOWS<br />
Fri 7 – Sun 9 Sep 10.30am-5pm<br />
Penshurst Place, Penshurst,<br />
Tonbridge, Kent TN11 8DG<br />
THE WEALD OF KENT<br />
COUNTRY CRAFT SHOW<br />
Enjoy the final Country Craft<br />
Show of the year, as the parkland<br />
welcomes carpenters, artisan<br />
producers and small businesses<br />
from across the county and<br />
further afield to gather with their<br />
wonderful collections and gifts.<br />
Entry: Adults £10, seniors £9,<br />
children free (if accompanied by<br />
an adult)<br />
01425 277988 /<br />
thecraftshows.co.uk<br />
What’s On in <strong>September</strong><br />
Sat 15 - Sun 23 Sep<br />
Various locations around the<br />
Weald of Kent<br />
HIGH WEALD WALKING<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
Explore one of the UK’s most<br />
beautiful medieval landscapes<br />
at the first ever High Weald<br />
Walking Festival. Experienced and<br />
knowledgeable guides will lead a<br />
host of inspiring walks suitable for<br />
all ages and abilities, with themed<br />
routes covering local history, art,<br />
literature, wildlife and geology.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
highwealdwalks.org<br />
Fri 21 Sep – Fri 5 Oct<br />
Various locations in and around<br />
Sevenoaks, Kent<br />
SEVENOAKS LITERARY<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
Another stellar line up is set to<br />
shine at this year’s Sevenoaks<br />
Literary Festival. From best-selling<br />
novelists to foreign correspondents<br />
and music scholars, there will be<br />
something to suit all tastes.<br />
0333 666 3366 / sevlitfest.com<br />
Fri 28 – Sat 29 Sep<br />
Cranbrook, Kent<br />
CRANBROOK LITERATURE<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
A weekend celebrating reading<br />
and writing. There will be<br />
poetry at The George Hotel,<br />
a guess the book competition<br />
in the shop windows of<br />
Cranbrook, an evening with<br />
broadcaster Jeremy Vine and a<br />
talk from historian Alison Weir.<br />
cranbrookliteraturefestival.com<br />
FOOD & DRINK<br />
Sat 1 Sep 12pm-10pm and Sun 2<br />
Sep 12pm-8pm<br />
The Chequers, The Broadway,<br />
Lamberhurst, Tunbridge Wells<br />
TN3 8DB<br />
The Festa della<br />
Vendemmia<br />
A lovely harvest festival at a family<br />
run, Italian gastropub and b&b<br />
with a great Italian market full of<br />
fresh produce.<br />
01892 890260 /<br />
info@chequerslamberhurst.co.uk<br />
Sat 8 – Sun 9 Sep<br />
Kent Life, Lock Lane,<br />
Maidstone, Kent ME14 3AU<br />
HOPS ‘N’ HARVEST BEER<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
Join in with traditionally handpicking<br />
hops, see the last coal fired<br />
oast house in Britain and sample<br />
up to 60 varieties of locally brewed<br />
ales and ciders. Whether you’re<br />
absorbing the fantastic live music<br />
programme, sampling the variety<br />
of food stalls, or enjoying Sooty’s<br />
live performance with the kids, it’s<br />
sure to be a great family day out.<br />
Entry: Kent Life members free<br />
online, non-members 10% off online<br />
Info: kentlife.org.uk<br />
Sun 9 Sep 11am-5pm<br />
Chiddingstone Castle, Hill<br />
Hoath Road, Chiddingstone,<br />
Kent TN8 7AD<br />
COUNTRY AND FOOD<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
Visitors will enjoy the annual<br />
family dog show, shopping, music,<br />
terrier racing, country displays and<br />
a wealth of food and drink stalls.<br />
Entry: Adults £6, children 5-13<br />
£2, under 5s free (includes reduced<br />
admission to the castle)<br />
chiddingstonecastle.org.uk<br />
FUNDRAISERS<br />
Sun 23 Sep 7.30am<br />
Starts at East Malling Research<br />
Centre, New Road, East Malling,<br />
Kent ME19 6BJ<br />
Cyclo Sportive <strong>2018</strong><br />
Get peddling, have fun and raise<br />
money for a great cause. You<br />
have the choice of three distances<br />
(104km, 65km or 36km) taking<br />
you on a loop through the heart<br />
of the Kent countryside. All routes<br />
include refreshments, first aid<br />
marshalls, vehicle support and<br />
professional chip timings.<br />
Entry: 104km - £35, 65km - £30<br />
and 36km - £25<br />
fundraising@hokh.co.uk / hokh.org<br />
SHOPPING<br />
Sat 8 Sep 10am-8pm<br />
Downtown Retro Emporium, 7<br />
Station Parade, London Road,<br />
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What’s On in <strong>September</strong><br />
Sevenoaks TN13 1DL<br />
WELCOME TO THE<br />
EMPORIUM<br />
A special vintage and retro<br />
shopping event; with twenty<br />
dealers over two floors selling an<br />
eclectic range of furniture, fashion,<br />
accessories, jewellery, kitchenware<br />
and decorative items. Discounts<br />
will apply throughout the day,<br />
together with refreshments and<br />
a chance to win a gift voucher<br />
in the charity raffle in aid of the<br />
Chestnut Tree House Hospice.<br />
07769 900662<br />
THEATRE & Music<br />
Weekly until Thurs 27 Sep 7pm<br />
The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells,<br />
Kent TN2 5TN<br />
JAZZ ON THE PANTILES<br />
Join this hugely popular music<br />
festival, now in its 21st year, in<br />
the historic heart of Tunbridge<br />
Wells. Over the summer months,<br />
this weekly music event showcases<br />
some of Kent’s best jazz bands in a<br />
gorgeous setting.<br />
Entry: Free (donations welcome)<br />
thepantiles.com<br />
Sun 16 – Sun 29 Sep<br />
Various locations in and around<br />
West Malling, Kent<br />
MUSIC@MALLING FESTIVAL<br />
A festival that brings international<br />
artists to historical venues and<br />
celebrates an eclectic mix of<br />
exceptional music. Highlights<br />
include a solo recital by James<br />
Pearson (artistic director of Ronnie<br />
Scott’s), a musical celebration of<br />
Frida Kahlo’s association with<br />
Marc Chagall, and music by<br />
Debussy, Bach and Elgar.<br />
musicatmalling.com<br />
Wed 26 Sep 7.30pm<br />
E M Forster Theatre, Tonbridge<br />
School, High Street, Tonbridge<br />
TN9 1JP<br />
NOT ABOUT HEROES<br />
Stephen Macdonald’s awardwinning<br />
play about the unique<br />
friendship between celebrated<br />
World War One poets Wilfred<br />
Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.<br />
Entry: £16, £14 concession<br />
01732 304241 / emftheatre.com<br />
WORKSHOPS<br />
Every Tuesday from Tue 4 Sep<br />
7.15-9pm<br />
Tenterden Zion Hall, High<br />
Street, Tenterden TN30 6BB<br />
ROCK IT!<br />
Meet new people and sing for fun<br />
to original arrangements: from<br />
show songs to current chart hits.<br />
Every penny raised by this non<br />
for profit choir goes to local and<br />
national charities, in particular<br />
Pilgrims Hospices and Abigail’s<br />
Footsteps.<br />
Entry: First session free, then £7/week<br />
07475 103230 /<br />
rockitchoir.co.uk<br />
Sat 8 Sep 10am-12.30pm<br />
Blooming Green, Linton,<br />
Maidstone ME17 4AG<br />
LESSONS FROM NATURE<br />
Let Yvonne Fernando - NLP<br />
Master Practitioner and Life<br />
Coach - guide you on how to<br />
tune into the cycles of nature<br />
to enhance your wellbeing. In<br />
collaboration with Blooming<br />
Green, expect a morning filled<br />
with valuable tips, inspiring<br />
discussions, private flower-picking<br />
sessions and cake.<br />
Entry: £40<br />
01233 878474 /<br />
yvonnefernandonlp.co.uk<br />
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Gardening Courses<br />
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DAHLIA DAYS<br />
5th <strong>September</strong> every day to<br />
15th <strong>September</strong><br />
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design, seed sowing, composting in<br />
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Courses held in Woodchurch, Kent<br />
No experience needed<br />
Contact Jo Arnell for details<br />
01233 861149 / 07923 969634<br />
www.hornbrookmanor.co.uk<br />
Ibbett Mosely<br />
AuctIoneers & VAluers<br />
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Wednesday 12th <strong>September</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Commencing at 12.30pm | Viewing 10.00am - 12.30pm<br />
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Shop; Sculpture Exhibition; open until 29th Sept.<br />
Ticehurst 01580 200888<br />
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Tenterden<br />
folk festival <strong>2018</strong><br />
“Tenterden, the Jewel of the Weald”<br />
Thursday 4 th to Sunday 7 th October<br />
Four days of folk song, music, dance, crafts and tradiinfo@tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk<br />
www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk<br />
Ticketed events: concerts, barn dance, special shows, workshops,<br />
meet the guests, folk clubs, etc. Includes Mick Ryan’s “Here at<br />
the Fair”<br />
Free events include: craft & street stalls, free music stage, dance<br />
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Competition<br />
Win a Solid silver<br />
bracelet worth £580<br />
All of the jewellery at Dominic Walmsley in Riverhead is made on site in their own<br />
workshops by a team of award-winning craftsmen. Established in Sevenoaks for over<br />
17 years, he has created an ever-growing following of clients who love to give gifts of<br />
jewellery pieces that are more personal and special than purchases from the multiple high street<br />
jewellers. His designs exude quality and the highest workmanship using traditional techniques<br />
in a contemporary shop that is full of exquisite pieces including many one of a kind pieces.<br />
How to enter: For<br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
Fables from<br />
the Farm<br />
Jane explains why farmers can’t be sentimental<br />
<strong>September</strong> is always a somewhat noisy month. It’s time<br />
for all those spring-born lambs and calves to part<br />
company with their mums and for a few days the whole<br />
of Stonegate echoes with bleats and baas and moos.<br />
Sheep operate on a five, four, three regime. Five months<br />
pregnant, four months milking and three months off. So for<br />
most of the ewes this season of mellow fruitfulness represents<br />
a peaceful time for rest, recuperation and reflection – if<br />
indeed sheep do such a thing. And apparently they do.<br />
A recent study carried out in China found that the average<br />
sheep (whatever that might be) can recognise and remember<br />
at least 50 individual faces for more than two years. Maybe<br />
there’s a sheep opportunity here to accompany forgetful<br />
people like me to parties so when chatting to folk one knows<br />
but can’t remember their names Baaaabra could step in and<br />
assist. I digress. Back to the weaning.<br />
Weaning the ewes from the lambs is quite noisy but it’s<br />
nothing compared to the cows. Cows come in two types:<br />
black and white dairy cows that are parted from their calves<br />
after about 24 hours and beef cows, often called suckler cows,<br />
that stay with their offspring for around<br />
eight or nine months.<br />
Our Sussex cows are a suckler herd<br />
and by <strong>September</strong> the calves are quite<br />
big and most of the cows will be<br />
thrilled to be relieved of their nagging<br />
adolescent offspring. After a few hours<br />
token mooing they will wander off<br />
across the field never to cast a backwards glance. For others<br />
it’s a three-day protest. They moo and moo until they become<br />
so hoarse they no longer make a sound but nevertheless they<br />
continue with silent mooing which is quite sad.<br />
Generally the calves seem much less bothered and we<br />
usually leave a couple of cows with the calves for a few weeks<br />
which seems to keep them all much calmer.<br />
<strong>September</strong> is also the month to consider what to do with<br />
“By <strong>September</strong> most of the<br />
cows will be thrilled to be<br />
relieved of their nagging<br />
adolescent offspring”<br />
all these year-plus teenagers. The best two or three heifers<br />
(female cows before they have had a calf) will be kept as<br />
breeding replacements and they will join the main herd,<br />
the others, mainly steers (castrated males) will now need to<br />
be fattened, known as finishing, for<br />
Christmas beef.<br />
We finish one or two on the farm<br />
to sell direct but unless you grow<br />
the necessary corn and straw it’s an<br />
expensive business so most of ours will<br />
be sent to market either at Ashford or<br />
Hailsham – the last two cattle markets<br />
left in the South East. There are three types of sale at these<br />
markets: breeding sales for potential breeding stock; prime<br />
cattle sales where butchers buy finished beasts for their shops;<br />
store sales where well-grown, but not fat cattle are bought by<br />
farmers to go onto another farm to be finished.<br />
A great number of the store cattle sold in this part of the<br />
world are taken up to East Anglia to be fattened. The big<br />
arable farmers in that part of the world have barns full of<br />
straw and silos full of barley so they can do the job far more<br />
cost effectively, but that is not the main reason they do it.<br />
What they’re after is “black gold”, the manure that will<br />
come out of the sheds at the end of the winter to spread back<br />
over their arable acres. Recycling at its best and as they say …<br />
where there’s muck there’s brass.<br />
If you’ve ever thought of owning a few chickens, sheep, pigs or even<br />
cows, Jane will be running a full-day course as part of the summer<br />
programme at Curious House Courses in Stonegate, on Thursday 7<br />
<strong>September</strong>. The morning will be spent on the joys of smallholding<br />
and the afternoon will include a walk around Coopers Farm. Find out<br />
more at curioushouse.net wwInstagram @coopersfarm<br />
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